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When I presented my study of a crash caused by a thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL, someone asked how I concluded that CcNamespace.dll was the ringleader of the fa Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260703-00/?p=112504
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Master logging in .NET with ILogger, structured logging, log levels, Serilog, and OpenTelemetry. Complete guide for .NET 9 and .NET 10 developers. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/03/logging-in-net-the-complete-developers-guide
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KotlinConf 2026 marked a milestone for the Kotlin community: the very first Golden Kodee Community Awards. The awards recognize the individuals and communities whose passion and dedication help the Kotlin ecosystem thrive. From creating educational content and building engaging online communities to organizing events, …
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Context In a recent engagement, the team built an LLM-based contract intelligence pipeline on Azure Databricks. The goal was to extract entitlements from a large corpus of inconsistently formatted service-contract PDFs — what is covered, on which equipment, and under which terms — so downstream systems can tell what is …
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Mock HttpClient C# in .NET 10: custom HttpMessageHandler stubs, DelegatingHandler interceptors, IHttpClientFactory wiring, and WebApplicationFactory tests. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/02/mock-httpclient-c-delegatinghandler-mock-handlers-and-integration-testing
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Understand what a NuGet package is, how the .nupkg format works, how the NuGet registry operates, and how package restore works in .NET projects. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/02/what-is-a-nuget-package-nupkg-format-and-the-nuget-registry-explained
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The talks are set for Pure Virtual C++ 2026, our free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. We're excited to reveal the featured session lineup and the speakers bringing it to you. Ma Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/pure-virtual-cpp-2026-talks-announced
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Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email systems, significantly raising the risk because of their advanced sophistication. Modern social engineers use generative …
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In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evaluation, design a reward aligned with the end task, manage what changes once the agent runs for multiple turns, and monitor the metrics that tell you when to …
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Toolbox App 3.6 gives you better control over local storage and makes Windows installation failures easier to diagnose. Clean up removable Toolbox App data from Settings The Toolbox App now shows how much removable data it can safely clean up, providing a breakdown for the download cache, previous versions, temporary …
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Today we released the 16.2.0 version of AutoMapper and 14.2.0 version of MediatR:AutoMapper Release NotesMediatR Release NotesThis release is a bit more enterprise-focused, with extensions for setting the license keys via environment variables, fixing some threading issues around license key validation, and Link to …
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The Explorer team was investigating a crash that was occuring at a relatively high rate and found that it took the form of a thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL. 0:173> k RetAddr Call Site 00000000557c5820 <Unloaded_LibUtils_CloudNs_3.dll>+0x265fe 0000000000000008 <Unloaded_LibU Link to …
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Building automated pipelines with your SQL database projects enables you to build a rich CI/CD ecosystem to ensure that your application is being deployed with good quality code and at high confidence of success. SQL Database Projects are compatible with just about every automation environment because fundamentally …
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IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1.4 is out with some useful fixes. You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are a Ubuntu user. You can also download it from our website. The latest update brings the following improvements: For a comprehensive overview of the fixes, see the …
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A visitor pattern real-world example in C# building a document export system with HTML, Markdown, and plain text visitors. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/02/visitor-pattern-realworld-example-in-c-complete-implementation
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Modern cloud platforms hide staggering complexity behind APIs, YAML files, dashboards, CLIs, and developer portals. Infrastructure teams now spend enormous amounts of effort trying to… Link to article: https://build5nines.com/big-thinkers-grace-hopper-the-origins-of-developer-productivity-and-software-abstraction/
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A complete guide to HTTP/3 in .NET 10 -- enabling and using QUIC with HttpClient and ASP.NET Core, including version negotiation, TLS requirements, testing locally, and real-world performance implications. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/01/http3-in-net-10-enabling-quic-with-httpclient-and-aspnet-core …
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Learn how to create, version, and publish NuGet packages in .NET. This complete guide covers dotnet pack, metadata, versioning, publishing, CI/CD, and more. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/01/the-complete-guide-to-creating-nuget-packages-in-net
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All modern AI solutions eventually need agents to query or mutate data in Microsoft SQL. Deciding how to do this safely, for example, how to handle NL2SQL, will be an important choice. Next come the twins: authentication and authorization. In this article, we discuss pass-through agentic authentic Link to article: …
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We're excited to introduce US-based frontier open-weight models in AWS GovCloud (US). With this release, Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OSS models (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B) models. In this post, we cover these models and their capabilities, …
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